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Show lower than this. What sort of people does he think he is talking to? What is his notion of the intelligence of the men for whose votes he plumps down into the dirt so readily? Does he suppose sup-pose that Farmer Doe and Laborer1 Roe are such ninnjhammers that he can throw them into fury by telling them that they are not so rich as somebody some-body else is? If Doe and Roe are industrious in-dustrious and thrifty, they are too busy i paddling their own canoe to curse somebody else because he happens to own a steam yacht. If, on the other hand, Doe doesn't know how to farm and Roe had rather make faces at better bet-ter men than work, they are clay for Bryan's hands. Such men, however, embittered failures, fail-ures, a class toward which, politically speaking, Mr. Bryan himself seems to be tending, cannot be very numerous or the community could not endure. Mr. Bryan seems to imagine that there may be enough of the incapables, full of blind anger against success, to elect him. He bids for the foolish and the disgruntled. "You are just as good a man as that trust magnate. Why have not you as much money?" That is what Mr. Bryan's argument, if such it can be called, amounts to. Its purpose is to inspire in those to whom it is addressed, ad-dressed, pity for themselves as men bilked in some mysterious way by the plutocrats, and hatred for the bilkers. A French anarchist putting down the bourgeoisie, a Hyde Park Socialist of a Sunday talks in about this strain. You may hear it, for that matter, from the imported Socialists and Anarchists of New York and Chicago. But it is not calculated for American latitudes.! Here the door to wealth is open to everybody ev-erybody who has the brains, the self-denial, self-denial, the steady purpose, the foreseeing foresee-ing eye; and it is vain to blow up hatred ha-tred against a merit or good fortune which few of us are so ascetic as to despise. The millions of potential millionaires mill-ionaires can't be drummed into wrath against the few hundreds or thousands who have actually taken their degree of A. M. If the farmer and laborer feel called upon to contrast their condition with that of somebody else, they are not restricted re-stricted to trust magnates. They can contrast it with Mr. Bryan's, for instance. in-stance. If he fares better than they, then it is their duty not to live in the same party with him. By the way. into what party would a farmer or laborer unwilling to live in the same party with a trust magnate go? Deli's, we suppose, or that of some other of the little fellows. Certainly not into Mr. Bryan's, which is well speckled with monopoly. BRYAN AT HSS WORST. A Sample of His More Recent "Wat Tyler Manner." Sir. Bryan continues to be the most effective stump speaker for the Republicans, Repub-licans, for his attempts to set against the well-to-do man the man who is at present less well to do, provoke the hostility of the one and the contempt of the other. His speech at Marion, Illinois, Monday, is a sample of his best Wat Tyler manner: "If the farmer or laboring man will compare his own condition with the condition of the trust magnate lie will find out who fares the best, and he can then decide whether he will live in the same party with the trust magnate." Mr. Bryan has a wonderful alacrity in sinking, but he can hardly get much |